Name: It's Not A West Wing Reunion, It's A Benefit With An Appearance By Michelle Obama
Uploaded: 2020-10-27T18:43:10.000Z
Duration: 9 min 34 s
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WE'RE BACK WITH THE CREATOR AND CAST OF "THE WEST WING."

OBVIOUSLY, BEING ON THE SHOW CHANGED THE ARC OF ALL YOUR

IT WAS MY FIRST FORAY INTO THE WORLD OF TELEVISION, AND I-- I--

PRESS BRIEFING, WHERE SHE HAD TO TELL THE PRESS THAT THE

PRESIDENT HAD RUN HIS BICYCLE INTO A TREE.

THIS INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT POSITION THAT C.J., PRESS

SECRETARY, HAVING TO DELIVER THIS KIND OF NEWS TO A PRESS

BUT I REMEMBER AUDITIONING FOR AARON AND TOMMY, AND I DID IT,

AND THEY WERE VERY-- THEY HAD POKER FACES.

I LEFT THERE AND THOUGHT, "WELL, THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.

SO I WAS VERY SURPRISED WHEN I GOT A CALL BACK AND DID THE SAME

SPEECH AGAIN, AND NOT A LOT OF DIRECTION AS I REMEMBER.

I JUST REMEMBER THINKING THAT I JUST HADN'T GOTTEN IT EACH TIME.

THEN WENT IN TO TEST FOR IT, WHICH IS ALWAYS A VERY

IT WAS MY FIRST, AND YOU SIT THERE IN THE ROOM WITH ALL THE

OTHER ACTORS WHO ARE AUDITIONING FOR YOUR ROLE.

THE FIRST SHOW YOU TESTED FOR WAS "WEST WING"?

>> Stephen: AS SOMEONE WHO DID MANY PILOT SEASONS, YOU GO TO

I GOT THE PHONE CALL FROM AARON THAT I WAS JOINING THE TEAM.

AND I ALWAYS WANTED TO ASK AARON IF THE REASON I GOT THIS PART

WAS BECAUSE OF "PRIMARY COLORS" MIKE NICHOLS.

I FEEL LIKE THAT WAS WHY I GOT THIS PART, ONE OF THE REASON S.

I HAD SEEN ALLISON DO EXACTLY ONE THING, WHICH IS TRIP WHILE

CLIMBING UP A FLIGHT OF STAIRS WITH JOHN TRAVOLTA IN "PRIMARY

AND LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, I FELL IN LOVE WITH HER IN THAT MOMENT.

I-- I DON'T KNOW WHY YOU HAD TO COME IN THREE TIMES.

YOU HAD IT AFTER YOU TRIPPED ON THE STAIRS.

YOU GAVE ME ANOTHER FALL ON THE TREADMILL.

TURNED OUT THAT, UNSURPRISINGLY, THAT YOU WERE GREAT AT PHYSICAL

>> BY THE WAY-- >> LISTEN, EVERYBODY ON THIS

SHOW SLIPS ON A BANANA PEEL AT SOME POINT OR THE OTHER.

BUT THEY DO IT WHILE THEY'RE REACHING HIGH, YOU KNOW.

>> Stephen: MARTIP, YOU HAVE THE GREATEST OPENING LINE OF ANY

YOU COME IN DECLAIMING THE FIRST COMMANDMENT.

( LAUGHS ) AS IF YOU WERE MOSES COMING DOWN

WHEN YOU READ THAT, DID YOU KNOW, LIKE, "OKAY, I HAVE TO

IT WAS THE MOST DISARMING, MOST EXTRAORDINARY ENTRANCE I COULD

AND, MIND YOU, WHEN I AGREED TO DO THE SHOW, IT WAS ONLY TO

PERFORM IN FOUR OR FIVE EPISODES PER SEASON BECAUSE BARTLETT WAS

HE WASN'T-- THE FOCUS WAS THE STAFF, THE WEST WING STAFF.

>> Stephen: THIS STAGED READING, THIS STAGED PLAY--

>> IT'S A STAGED READING, BUT YOUR "READING" HAD SKEPTICISM IN

>> Stephen: I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A BETTER WORD FOR

>> Stephen: THE STAGED PLAY-- HOW ABOUT JUST A STAGING.

>> IT'S A BENEFIT FOR "WHEN WE ALL VOTE," AS YOU MENTIONED.

IT IS A NONPROFIT, NONPARTISAN ORGANIZATION THAT AIMS TO GET

OUT THE VOTE, THAT AIMS TO COMBAT VOTER SUPPRESSION, AND

WE-- WE HAVE-- WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS WE'RE AIMING AT A VERY

WE WANT TO MOVE FANS OF "THE WEST WING" TO THE POLLS.

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